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Veto Threat Clouds Democrats' Budget

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David Rogers

Updated May 12, 2007 12:01 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- As Democrats near agreement on a 2008 budget, the White House is threatening to veto any domestic-appropriations bill that exceeds President Bush's spending requests for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.

That's a much tougher stance than Mr. Bush took when Republicans ran Congress, and, if implemented, would result in multiple vetoes that would play havoc with the Democratic legislative agenda this summer and next fall.